On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 06:07:44PM -0800, Paul Vixie wrote:
Simon@wretched.demon.co.uk (Simon Waters) writes:
I remain unconvinced that showing the version string helps much.
it helped you with your survey, didn't it?
hiding it doesn't help at all. people who want to know if you're vulnerable and to what have tools to find out.
hiding it DOES however make it harder for people (including network owners) to do surveys.
I always thought that it was regarded as generally good security practice to give out as little information about your systems as possible, and none at all if you can help it. The BIND version should at least only be accessible from a set of defined IP addresses, defaulting to 127/8. --Adam -- Adam McKenna <adam-sig@flounder.net> | "No matter how much it changes, http://flounder.net/publickey.html | technology's just a bunch of wires GPG: 17A4 11F7 5E7E C2E7 08AA | connected to a bunch of other wires." 38B0 05D0 8BF7 2C6D 110A | Joe Rogan, _NewsRadio_ 9:10pm up 236 days, 19:28, 8 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00